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Good. Hopefully they go out of business.
'Washington Post’s Traffic is Cratering – Has Fallen by Nearly 90
Percent Since 2021'
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'The Washington Post appears to be facing an existential crisis.
The troubled left-wing newspaper, which is owned by former Amazon CEO
Jeff Bezos, has reportedly seen its traffic crater by nearly 90 percent
since 2021.
It has also seen a considerable decline in revenue despite Bezos making
clear that he will not subsidize its losses.
Semafor reports:
Over the last four years, web traffic has cratered. According to
internal data shared with Semafor in recent weeks, the Post’s regular
daily traffic last year sunk to less than a quarter of what it was at
its peak in January 2021.
That month, the Post briefly reached a high of around 22.5 million daily
active users following the attack.
But by the middle of 2024, its daily users hovered around 2.5-3 million
daily users.
Last year, Washington City Paper noted that the Post had stopped
publicly disclosing its traffic numbers in press releases, after a 60%
decline in monthly traffic.
On Friday, The Wall Street Journal reported that the Post’s revenue fell
from $190 million in 2023 to $174 million last year.
Having once positioned itself at the heart of the anti-Trump resistance,
the iconic Washington newspaper most famous for breaking the Watergate
Scandal is currently embroiled by internal turmoil as its activist
employees lash out at Bezos’s own political pivot.
A former Trump critic, Bezos has recently taken a much more sympathetic
tone towards Donald Trump and sent him enthusiastic congratulations
following his landslide election victory in November.
Following his victory, Bezos also traveled to Mar-a-Lago to meet with
the president-elect and has even donated $1 million to his inauguration
fund.
However, Bezos’s most notable decision was to block the paper’s
editorial board from formally endorsing Kamala Harris, leading to an
exodus of both employees and angry subscribers.
On Monday, the website’s “conservative” blogger Jennifer Rubin became
the latest prominent employee to depart the company.
In her resignation later, she accused “Bezos and his cronies” of “accommodat[ing] and enabl[ing] the most acute threat to American democracy—Donald Trump—at a time when a vibrant free press is more essential than ever to our democracy’s survival and capacity to thrive.”
“Corporate and billionaire owners of major media outlets have betrayed
their audiences’ loyalty and sabotaged journalism’s sacred mission — defending, protecting, and advancing democracy,” she wrote.
”The Washington Post’s billionaire owner and enlisted management are
among the offenders.”
“They have undercut the values central to The Post’s mission and that of all journalism: integrity, courage, and independence,” she continued.
”I cannot justify remaining at The Post.'
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